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This week, I didn’t do particularly well writing-wise (two days I didn’t write at all due to death in husbands family and funeral) but on the rest of the days, I fared sufficiently (even today, when I was slacking for the most part of the day and managed to pull my act together rather late). [...]

The job I’m doing right now with Virgin is clearly experimental, switching between different perceptions of time, focusing on nuances instead of the obvious, and going slow, having no major stuff happening (yet). This is probably what could be named “literary fiction” if I wrote better, or “high literature” in Latvian (actually, Latvians have trouble [...]

This year, I started with editing and writing. That was going pretty well until this morning when I woke up…well, I didn’t really wake up, i sorta came to consciousness and realized I can’t get out of my bed without swaying and I can’t look into light and I can’t have five minutes peace from [...]

Yesterday, I practically beat myself over the head to stop trying to write and stop editing. While I do realize that there are situations when a writer must do everything to finish editing or start writing or whatever, this is *not* the situation. I am not under a deadline, I am not broke because I [...]

Yesterday, I allowed my husband to read the beginning of my NaNo novel (he’s been trained not to mention the glitches in grammar and style) and he said it drew him in (yay!). Then, I realized why I like writing more than I like reading. While reading, I always know that the author has somehow [...]

Yesterday, I did a two days’ work, 1600+ words on Vega. I’m a bit troubled about how my love line is progressing. I feel like writing a mystery or a suspense novel *inside* the love line. Right now, it’s like running back home from a scary forest and even scarier driveaway, locking yourself in, leaning [...]

Yesterday, I was too tired to think, let alone write much. I also figured that if I’m too tired to think, then perhaps this stage is a good one to let my imagination come up with a story idea. That was a cool thing to do, actually, so now I have a setting, a twist, [...]

So. I did 800+ words yesterday and 600+ words today, thus wrapping up a tiny story line with a splash (in an ice-cold water with severely traumatized child in hands). I am now pondering what on earth do I do now. I see the next sentence and the next, but that’s about it. I want [...]

Vega got 697 words with a lead for today, so it’s fine. I’m trying not to dwell on how far behind on my weekly goal I was: today, a new week starts, and I hope it’ll be a productive one. Even with the things I must do to keep my RL moving forward… I need [...]

Due to my troublemaker nature, I got myself in bigger mess than I expected. So here is what I learned (well, besides the fact that I can full well grow up but dropping trouble-making entirely isn’t going to happen any time soon): the thing that I am truly afraid of when poking the anthill is [...]